"Actually I Was the Star": Managing Attributions in Conversation

Abstract: In this paper, we outline the parameters of a discursive approach to attributions in sport psychology. Attribution theory has had a strong presence within sport and exercise psychology. Attributions are the perceived causes or reasons that people give for an occurrence related to themselves or others. An attributional model, developed in educational psychology, has been most influential and often requires the researcher(s) or participants to determine the dimensional categorisation of attributions (e.g., internal-external, stable-unstable, controllable-uncontrollable). Assessing attributions in sport and exercise psychology has been almost exclusively through self-report questionnaires and entrenched within a limited theoretical perspective. In contrast, a discursive approach focuses on discourse and what is accomplished through people's talk. Such an approach would advocate a move from a view of talk (discourse) as a route to internal or dimensional categories to an emphasis on ta.... https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/745

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: "Actually I Was the Star": Managing Attributions in Conversation ; volume:4 ; number:1 ; day:31 ; month:01 ; year:2003 ; Forum qualitative Sozialforschung ; 4, Heft 1 (31.01.2003)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Finlay, Sara-Jane ; Faulkner, Guy

Further information

• DOI: 10.17169/fqs-4.1.745
• URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs030133
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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